Changing Leaders
Hard Histories Require New Leadership, by Students, Beyond the University, and in the Hands of Descendant Stakeholders
It was so easy for Dr. [Jessica Marie] Johnson to convince me that I should work with Jennie [Williams] on this project. It was almost as though she was reading my mind…. I'm a very spiritual person, I'm praying … "Lord, I know this is my assignment. How am I supposed to do this work?” — Eola Lewis Dance, Kinfolkology, the Montpelier Foundation, and Howard University.
On September 8, Hard Histories practitioners and their colleagues gathered at Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum for a series of roundtable conversations. Here, we bring you the third of those exchanges, one on how the practice of hard histories research requires new sources of leadership — students, descendants, and structures developed far from the university — and then promotes change.
You can watch here as Baltimore Beat's editor-in-chief Lisa Snowden speaks with David Carey, Jr., of Loyola University Maryland, Eola Lewis Dance of Kinfolkology, the Montpelier Foundation and Howard University, Jennie K. Williams of Kinfolkology and the University of Virginia, and Lindsay J. Thompson of the Mount Clare Museum House and the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.
We'll be back next week to wrap up this series on Baltimore's Hard Histories.
— MSJ
Please join our colleagues at Inheritance Baltimore and the Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship on Thursday, October 19, 2023 for "Racism and Repair at Johns Hopkins and Beyond," at Baltimore's Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center. You can register to attend in person here, or tune-in via Zoom.